A.“ἔρα_σαι” Theoc.1.78, 3sg. “ἔρα_ται” Id.2.149 (with unexpld. α_); 2pl. “ἐράασθε” Il.16.208; 3sg. subj. Aeol. and Dor. “ἔρα_ται” Sapph.Supp.5.4, Pi.P.4.92 ; opt. ἐραίμαν ib.11.50 ; impf. ἠράμην [α^] Sapph.33, Thgn.1346, etc.: fut. “ἐρασθήσομαι” A.Eu.852 : aor. “ἠράσθην” Alcm.33, Hdt.1.8,96, E.Med.700, IG12.920.2, poet. “ἐράσθην” Phoen.1.19 ; poet. aor. Med. “ἠρα^σάμην” Il.16.182, Hermesian. 7.49,96 (Ep. and Lyr. “ἠράσσατο” Il.20.223, Archil.26, Nicaen.1.5 ; “ἐράσσατο” Hes. Th.915, P1.P.2.27): pf. “ἤρασμαι” Parth.2.3 : ἐράω (q.v.) supplies the pres. and impf. in Prose.
I. love, c. gen. pers., prop. of the sexual passion, as always in Hom.; mostly of the man, “ὥς σεο νῦν ἔραμαι” Il.3.446, cf. 16.182, 20.223, etc.; “λέχους” E.Med.491 ; “τῆς ἑωυτοῦ γυναικός” Hdt.1.8 ; but of the woman, “ἣ..ἠράσσατ᾽ Ἐνιπῆος” Od.11.238 : c. acc. cogn., “ἐ. μέγαν γ᾽ ἔρωτα” E.Med.697.
II. of things, desire passionately, lust after, “ὃς πολέμου ἔραται ἐπιδημίου” Il. 9.64 ; “φυλόπιδος..ἕης τὸ πρίν γ᾽ ἐράασθε” 16.208 ; “ἐρασθεὶς τυραννίδος” Hdt.1.96 ; “τῶν ἀπεόντων” Pi.P.3.20 ; καλῶν ib.11.50 ; “γῆς τῆσδε” A. Eu.852 ; “κείνων ἔραμαι” E.Alc.866 (anap.); “θανάτου ἔρανται” Aret.CA 2.5.